[New post] “Frenemies” Both Help And Harm Each Other At Work

BPS Research Digest posted: " By Emma Young Think about your relationships with your colleagues… I bet there are at least some who you'd call "frenemies". Maybe there's a co-worker whose sense of humour you love, say — but who also irritates you by failing to pull their weight. In" New post on Research Digest "Frenemies" Both Help And Harm Each Other At Work by BPS Research Digest By Emma Young Think about your relationships with your colleagues… I bet there are at least some who you'd call "frenemies". Maybe there's a co-worker whose sense of humour you love, say — but who also irritates you by failing to pull their weight. In fact, the workplace is the ideal breeding ground for relationships that are characterised by simultaneous, strong positive and negative feelings — so-called "ambivalent relationships" (or frenemies) — note the authors of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Psychology. It's surprising, then, how little is known about how frenemies behave with each other, write Shimul Melwani at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Naomi Rothman at Lehigh University. So the pair ran a series of studies to find out. Read more of this post BPS Research Digest | November 2, 2021 at 10:30 am | Categories: Occupational, Social | URL: https://wp.me/p7Lf0f-bwp Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Research Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/11/02/frenemies-both-help-and-harm-each-other-at-work/